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2112, 2021

The Growing Revolution

By Dean Kuipers|2022-02-17T16:07:56-08:00December 21st, 2021|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on The Growing Revolution

What will it take for an emerging patchwork of co-ops, food hubs, and farming collectives to challenge Big Ag?

1512, 2021

California’s Farms: Drought, Depression, and Suicide

By Dean Kuipers|2022-02-17T16:07:46-08:00December 15th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on California’s Farms: Drought, Depression, and Suicide

Agricultural workers are among the first to feel the mental health effects of climate change.

2202, 2021

Red Canary: A grievous harvest

By Dean Kuipers|2021-05-25T18:11:04-08:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Red Canary: A grievous harvest

Dispossession Author Pete Daniel on How Black Farmers Were Robbed of Their Land.

2110, 2020

Red Canary: You should know a farmer

By Dean Kuipers|2021-05-25T18:08:47-08:00October 21st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Red Canary: You should know a farmer

How food sovereignty and resilient food systems put the future in our own hands.

2505, 2020

Capital & Main: Growing local is key to providing food security in times of crisis

By Dean Kuipers|2021-05-25T18:05:46-08:00May 25th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Capital & Main: Growing local is key to providing food security in times of crisis

To break the corporate grip on our food, we need to stop looking to fields far away and look closer to home.

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My Latest Book

THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them

Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow it out of the ground. THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the true story of the author’s family and the power of nature.

Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting, fishing and working, but not at much else that makes a real father or husband. Conflicted, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons—journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide.

So when Bruce purchased a 100-acre hunting property as a way to reconnect with his sons, they resisted. The land was the perfect bait, but none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over whether the land – an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a few stands of pine and blowing sand – should be left alone or be actively restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature.

Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world.